THE CONGRESS: Hot Words

In Washington, which was warm but not
yet sizzling, some congressional tempers sizzled last week like pork
fat dropped in a skillet.

In a hearing room of the Capitol, Tennessee's ancient and irascible
Senator Kenneth McKellar faced ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman, who had
been reported by the morning papers as saying he would resign if the
Senate cut any more of the $3.5 billion which the House had allotted
ECA for 1950. Said McKellar, chairman of the Appropriations Committee:
"Other than giving away other people's money, I wonder what you are
doing...